CVE-2021-20490 Misconfiguration in Spectrum Protect Plus

What is CVE-2021-20490?

CVE-2021-20490 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, published on 29 Jun 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.8 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to insecure file permission settings. IBM X-Force ID: 197791.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-20490?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus.

How do I fix CVE-2021-20490?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-20490 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-20490 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20490 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

• CVE-2020-4854 Hardcoded credentials in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4242 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.8
• CVE-2019-4357 Code injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.2
• CVE-2020-4469 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4703 File upload in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-j9mj-3442-mm95.